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Message:: [QUOTE="kanga, post: 4594389, member: 9270"]I've been imaging a part of my collection, Capped Bust Half Dimes.I haven't been happy with the results.Part of the problem is taking the picture in Fine Jpeg, even with my 60mm macro lens.I was taking a 15mm coin and zooming it to a 185mm screen image.Features that you can't see with the naked eye (or not even much with a 9x loupe) really show up, mostly scratches.If a seller used that image, I would never buy a coin that looked like that. I did a test using the RAW format; lots more resolution.So now I can see the scratches even better plus many that I couldn't see before.BUT I learned how to tweak the image with Photoshop just enough to get the coin to look like what you'd see with the naked eye or at a 3x magnification.I didn't overdo it.I didn't want it to look like an MS-67 coin. Slowly I'm learning. Here's the original .jpg image reduced to 40% (what I use as screen size).<img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/RawRestLow-40.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Here's the RAW image tweaked and converted to .jpg and reduced to 40%.<img src="http://www.dcderoo.com/RawRestLow2-40-AuSharp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> It's just a touch better.I could improve it more BUT I want to keep it real. BTW that is a full bisecting die crack.It's an 1834 LM-4 variety.[/QUOTE]